A/N: I am so extremely sorry for the wait, summer just started and I have had my friends over nonstop, so I haven't had any time to write. I will try as much as I can to post on Sundays but it might happen more during the week or when my friends have to go home. I am so sorry, I am going to write and extra long chapter just for you guys for being so patient.

Chapter 25

James' POV

The first weeks of term went by quickly; I got named captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Since I am the Head Boy and Lily is Head Girl we get our own dormitories and we stay up most of the night doing homework and just talking. It looks like Lily is finally starting to enjoy life again.

It has been three months sense her parents died and she is healing a lot quicker than I am and Lily had to watch her parents die. That shows how much stronger Lily is than me. I look up to her for that.

We have been spending so much time together lately. All the prefects patrol the halls from after dinner to min-night, after that Lily and I patrol the halls from mid-night to four in the morning. We have free period the right after breakfast so we get to sleep in while everyone is having breakfast and we eat while we have free period. When we eat we have permission to go and eat with the House Elves in the kitchen so we spend a lot of time with them also.

I wonder why people are so mean to them; they are so sweet and kind. There is this one elf I really like and his name is Tiggy, he is so nice to me and Lily. He serves us every day and sits with us and we talk about how his job is and how he feels about it.

o.O.o

"Padfoot! Give it back, this is not funny!" I was in the Boys' dormitory and Sirius thought it was funny to steal my wand as I was about to go to breakfast. "I need—that!" I was now wrestling hi for it. He was laughing his head off. He finally gave up and gave it to me. He chuckled and brushed his hand through his hair.

I went down to breakfast and it was normal as usual.

o.O.o

I was walking down the hall towards charms class with Lily.

"I am going to do my homework outside today, its so nice!" She said looking out the window as we passed.

"It really is. Would you like some help with the transfiguration homework?" I asked, knowing she would need help. She nodded her head with wide eyes.

"This year Transfiguration is going to be so hard, I am going to need a lot of help."

"As long as you help me with my astronomy homework; that is just way too confusing." I laughed. She nodded.

We continued to walk.

"Lily, why won't you go out with me there has to be a reason?" I asked pleading.

"Well, I do really want to date you but, I don't want another reason for Voldemort to hurt me, he already took away my parents, I don't want him to take away you too." Her eyes have started to get watery.

"Lily, I am here to stay. I will be here for you no matter what." I grabbed her hand. She cleared her throat and took her hand away. I don't think she really likes talking about this subject much.

"So, um, what do you think we are doing in charms today?" She asked holding her head down.

"Lily," She lifted up her head. "What did I tell you about letting your head fall down? Don't." She nodded and smiled. "That's the smile I love." I smiled and we kept walking.

We finally got to our charms class and saw that there were Slytherins in the class when it was usually Hufflepuffs. I walked up to the professor teaching the class.

"Why are there Slytherins here and not Hufflepuffs?" I asked.

"We are practicing dueling today and Dumbledore wanted Gryffindor against Slytherin." He walked away to get the class ready. I just stood there with anger. After a little bit I went to sit next to Lily.

"Class, today we are going to be practicing dueling. Now, Gryffindor, you must notice that Slytherin is here today instead of Hufflepuff. Dumbledore wanted you two to duel against each other. Now, Gryffindor please, choose a Slytherin dueling partner. Everyone will duel in front of the class and you will have five minutes each." The teacher finally stopped talking and I turned to Lily; she was glaring at Snape. I knew what she was about to do; she was about to take all the anger she had built up against him sense he helped Voldemort kill her parents.

"Lily, don't do anything you will regret." I tried to stop her. But she started walking over there.

"Snape and I are partners." She walked over to him and grabbed his arm, dragging him up to the stage.

"Are you sure, Lily?" The professor asked. She nodded and got inter her stance. Snape did too. "Okay, both duelers ready?" They both nodded. "One, two, three." And they were off.

Immediately Lily shot a spell at him.

"Locomotor Mortis!"

Snape sent the spell back at her. "Protego!" He called.

Lily blocked it. "Finite Incantatum!" She yelled, and immediately said. "Avifors! Avis!" All the small objects in the room turned into birds and flew at Snape. They all pecked at his ski and he yelled. "Finite Incantatum!" Which stopped the spell. The birds disappeared and all the small objects went back to where they were.

While Snape was watching the objects lily quickly yelled. "Expelliarmus!" Snape's want flew to Lily and she smiled cruelly at him.

"Tarantallegra!" Snapes leg suddenly began to dance and he didn't look happy. After a while Lily finally said "Finite Incantatum!" And Snape stopped dancing. He was out of breath. He looked so angry at Lily, it was quite funny. I wanted Lily to keep going but her time was almost up and she knew it. She said one last spell.

"Petrificus Totalus!" Snape's body became all stiff and fell to the ground. Lily laughed and started wlaking towards me. The professor countered the curse and gave Snape back his wand He had the strongest look of hate on his face.

"Cruci—" Lily turned around and Snape had his wand pointed at Lily and was in the middle of casting the Crucio spell when he realized what he was doing.

The expression on Lily's face hurt me so badly. It was filled with hurt and distrust. I cant believe Snape almost made her go through that.

"Severus Snape! Go to Dumbledore. Now!" The Professor called. He grabbed Snape and started dragging him towards Dumbledore's office.

"Lily, are you okay?" I asked her once she got back to me.

"I think so." She said looking up at me and smiling. The professor peered back in the room and said that class was dismissed.

Lily and I walked out of the room together.

"Hey, do you want to go fly?" I asked and she nodded with excitement. She started walking faster to get to the common room. I grabbed my broom and we started to walk outside.

"How was it, I mean dueling against him?" I asked.

"It was great, I had to use simple spells but he was vulnerable and couldn't do anything about it. I loved it. It took me a lot not to use stupefy on him, we were at school so I couldn't." She sighed and laughed.

"I cant believe he almost used crucio on me. That is proof that he is working with Voldemort. He would have never done that to me a couple years ago." I nodded and we kept walking.

We spent the rest of the charms class flying and she looked like she had so much fun. We started to walk in.

"I will see you later, James. I have to go and get my things for Potions." She waved to me and we walked in opposite directions.

Lily's POV

I was walking down the hall towards the Head Boy and Girl's common room to grab my stuff for Potions. I was walking down the corridor when I saw Snape.

"Snape!" I called after him. He turned around and once he saw me anger grew on his face.

"What happened to not talking to me?" He asked walking towards me.

"Well that was before you almost tortured me in front of the whole class. What was that?!" I asked

"I-I was angry." He answered shyly.

"So every time you get angry now you are going to torture someone?" I asked with attitude in my voice.

"No, but—" I interrupted him.

"What makes me so different? Is it because im a filthy mudblood?"

"Don't call yourself that." He said warningly.

"I can do whatever the bloody hell I want. You are obviously not my best friend anymore so you cant tell me what to do." I pointed my finger at him.

"I never was your friend." When he said this he dropped his head.

"Is this what your new best friend, Voldemort, is making you say?" I started to yell.

"Don't say his name," He breathed. "I need to go." He started to walk past me.

"We are not done talking." I said. I grabbed his arm but he kept walking, causing me to pull his sleeve up. I see nothing other than the Dark Mark. I look up at him, he has a worried look in his eyes and all he can say is "Yes" before pulled his sleeve down and running down the corridor away from me, not looking back.